Two escapees remain on the loose after three were captured in the cities of Huntsville, Texas and Baton Rouge, Louisiana on ...

According to a post from the Huntsville Police Department, the two were arrested off of Highway 190 and Geneva Road in ...

Holding people as prisoners has been around for a while, but we rarely realize the exact point when prisons are opened. The Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville was only partially completed when ...

Over 650 inmates were evacuated after a fire broke out at a Texas state prison in Huntsville. No one was injured in the fire and inmates were moved to other areas of the prison, according to ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- Huntsville's Texas Prison Museum is unlike any museum in the world. It is home to the good and bad history of the incarceration system. The first thing you will see when you ...

“The Huntsville unit is an icon, it’s the best way to describe it,” said Texas Prison Museum director David Stacks. He was never assigned to work in the Walls Unit, but he says he helped ...

More than 250 Texas prisoners are on the waitlist to join the Lee College reentry class. Programs like these prepare students to find jobs and help lower recidivism. Audio recording is automated ...

Jim Willett, who served as warden at the Walls Unit from 1998 to 2001 and now directs the Texas Prison Museum in Huntsville, estimates he went to 75 percent of the funerals at Captain Joe Byrd ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has made sweeping leadership changes at a Huntsville prison where an inmate managed to get a gun that he later used to escape, the agency announced Tuesday.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas inmate was executed by lethal injection Wednesday evening for killing a supervisor at a state prison shoe factory in Amarillo nearly 17 years ago. Travis Runnels ...

Welcome to Huntsville. Nestled into the edge of the pine curtain of East Texas, Huntsville has been a prison town for nearly all of its existence. Just three years after the town incorporated in 1845, ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — As the seasons change ... "It's not safe,” says TDCJ spokesman Robert Hurst. The prison system owns the dilapidated building which sits right across the street from ...